Basics when facing cops
published: Friday | June 6, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
THE SO-CALLED 'controversial' police killings of suspects would be abated if Jamaicans would accept a few basic tenets:
1. If a police officer points a gun at you, you should raise both your hands above your head immediately. If the police officer shoots you in this position, he would be arrested for assault or murder.
2. If a policeman points a gun at you and you put your hands into your pocket, the officer is entitled to believe that you are retrieving a gun and you may be shot immediately.
3. If you shoot at the police under any circumstance, you may be shot by them without warning.
This is not a country with illegal armies fighting each other and we only recognise the existence of law-abiding citizens and criminals.
